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“The key difference between these two candidates is that one is going to do all he can to avoid a new war in the Middle East and the other one is going to hand over U.S. policy to [Israeli Prime Minister] Bibi Netanyahu and launch a new global war,” Sullivan said.

The 49-year-old British pundit, who once branded himself as a conservative and even supported George W. Bush in his first presidential campaign, is a vocal backer of President Obama. He has been harshly critical of Israel, and in 2010 advocated U.S. military intervention to impose a two-state solution in Israel.

Sullivan has been in a whirl ever since President Obama’s flat debate performance against Romney Oct. 3. When Obama’s poll numbers plummeted following the debate, Sullivan called it “terrifying” in his Daily Beast blog last week.